Mr. Dolphus Raymond is evidently a complicated and interesting person. Describe his way of life and comment on its affect upon the town. To Kill...

Mr. Dolphus Raymond, who lives outside the society of
other whites and blacks, as well, acts somewhat like the Chorus of a Greek Play.  In
Chapter 20 of To Kill a Mockingbird, the reader discerns a part of
human nature that lies below the social codes that are taught.  Mayella Ewell has done
the unspeakable:  she has kissed a black man, and an evil side of man has been exposed
in the testimony of Bob Ewell.  Realizing that this evil has been exposed, Atticus Finch
tries to appeal to the morality of the jury in his closing arguments in spite of Link
Deas's validation of the character of Tom Robinson having been silenced as the judge
calls for the removal of Deas  from the court, even though he does nothing to mitigate
the racial prejudice that permeates
the proceedings.

Outside the courtroom, Mr. Raymond acts as
a Chorus to be the moral mirror of the drama within.  For, his behavior, albeit outside
the social code, too, is not immoral; nevertheless, he is scorned.  He simply prefers
the company of the blacks because he finds white people too hypocritical and one-sided
in their thinking.  Since it is against social mores to live with blacks and have
children who are mixed, Mr. Dolphus Raymond  mocks the townspeople's hypocrisy by
pretending to be a drunkard as he carries around a Coca-Cola in a brown wrapper.  Like
the jurors in the courtroom, the townspeople who see Mr. Raymond are satisfied and
content if they can maintain the status quo by rationalizing the eccentric behavior
of Mr. Dolphus and by condemning him as a drunk.  As in the courtroom in which Judge
Taylor does not address what is at the core of the problem, the townspeople cover the
social rebellion of Mr. Raymond with a label. 

Only
children will cry, Mr. Dolphus tells Dill and Jem and Scout; only children will cry at
an injustice.  For, he knows too well the social mores must remain intact even if it
means fabricating evidence against a man.  Like the Chorus of an ancient play, Mr.
Dolphus Raymond comments upon the morality of the actors in the play of the courtroom of
Macomb, Alabama. 

Just as the court refuses to accept the
undeniable implications of the evidence in Tom's trial, so does it refuse the
implications of the way of life that Mr. Raymond Dolphus has chose and the reasons he
has made this choice.